WHERE vs HAVING

Question

Why do you need to place columns you create yourself (for example select 1 as \"number\") after HAVING and not WHERE in MySQL?

Answer 1

WHERE filters before data is grouped, and HAVING filters after data is grouped. This is an important distinction; rows that are eliminated by a WHERE clause will not be included in the group. This could change the calculated values which, in turn(=as a result) could affect which groups are filtered based on the use of those values in the HAVING clause.

And continues,

HAVING is so similar to WHERE that most DBMSs treat them as the same thing if no GROUP BY is specified. Nevertheless, you should make that distinction yourself. Use HAVING only in conjunction with GROUP BY clauses. Use WHERE for standard row-level filtering.

Excerpt From: Forta, Ben. “Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes (5th Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself...).”.